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Midgley earned her bachelor's degree at the State University of New York at Binghamton and her medical degree at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. She completed an emergency medicine residency and ultrasound fellowship at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

College, businesses collaborate on new optical transmission method - A technology test bed operating at Marist College in Poughkeepsie in collaboration with IBM Corp. and ADVA Optical Networking has successfully demonstrated an advance in optical transmission of data using innovative methods.

The project is an industry first, ADVA said. It involves virtualization, which is using a single computer to function as many images for many users. It takes this virtualization outside the data center and puts it on a network using software-defined networking.

The technique will enable better use of networks where bandwidth patterns are constantly changing and creating bottlenecks. Robert Cannistra, a senior professional lecturer at Marist, said, "The only way to meet the fierce bandwidth demand while improving the end-user experience is to make the network more dynamic and responsive. With the technology in our test bed, you only need to set up the network once. Afterward, everything else is handled automatically in response to real-time performance metrics."